Employee was operating a diesel personnel carrier on the Main South Travelway. It appears that his vehicle struck a coal pillar at xcut #193 and he was ejected from the vehicle. He sustained fatal crushing injuries to his chest area.
Peabody Midwest Mining, LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 2,081
- Mines on record
- 19
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 89% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Jim Walter Resources Inc21fatal2,258 total
- Stillwater Mining Company10fatal1,854 total
- Newmont USA Limited9fatal1,962 total
- Peabody Midwest Mining, LLCthis operator3fatal2,081 total
- The American Coal Company1fatal2,054 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
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Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 50 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK453 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS158 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON71 non-fatal
- MACHINERY71 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)43 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
- Gateway MineIL
- Preparation PlantIL
- Wildcat Hills Mine - Cottage Grove PitIL
- Riola Complex Vermilion Grove PortalIL
- Wildcat Hills Mine-UndergroundIL
- Viking Mine - Corning PitIN
- Air Quality #1 MineIN
- Viking Mine - Knox PitIN
- Columbia Maintenance ServicesIN
- Francisco MineIN
- Farmersburg MineIN
- Air Quality South Wash PlantIN
- Somerville Central MineIN
- Francisco Underground PitIN
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedEmployee was fatally injured when he was struck by a battery powered coal hauler in Unit 2.It is believed that the employee walked through the last open crosscut to #4 entry and sat down near the inby corner of #4 entry to eat his lunch. A coal hauler rounded the corner and pinned the employee to the rib.